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Angela Crider Neary

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Angela Crider Neary is an attorney by day and writer by night. She was inspired to write the first book in her cat detective mystery series, LI'L TOM AND THE CASE OF THE PARROTS DESAPARECIDOS, by Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Her second book, LI'L TOM AND THE CASE OF THE NEW YEAR DRAGON is now available.

Angela has also published short stories in DENIM, DIAMONDS AND DEATH: BOUCHERCON ANTHOLOGY 2019; ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE (January/February 2018); and NINE DEADLY LIVES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FELINE FICTION.

Angela lives in California wine country with her husband and their extremely spoiled cat. The beautiful weather and surroundings make her feel like she is on vacation every day. Angela enjoys cooking, wine tasting, live music, and, of ...more

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Bill Crider's Years Behind Bars

I ran across an interesting EQMM blog post by my father, Bill Crider, describing his years behind bars. What the post doesn't go into is how his years in prison led to sending me to prison for several years in my first job as an attorney representing indigent inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system.

Dad in front of Alcatraz (not the prison where he spent time)

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	Li'l Tom And The Pussyfoot Detective Bureau: The Case Of The Parrots Desaparecidos 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bullets and Other Hurting Things: A Tribute to Bill Crider by Rick Ollerman, Angela Crider Neary (Goodreads Author), William Kent Krueger (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nine Deadly Lives: An Anthology of Feline Felonies by Faye Rapoport DesPres (Goodreads Author), Mollie Hunt (Goodreads Author), Livia J. Washburn (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Denim, Diamonds and Death: Bouchercon Anthology 2019 by Rick Ollerman, Carole Nelson Douglas (Goodreads Author), John M. Floyd 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Li’l Tom and the Pussyfoot Detective Bureau: The Case of the New Year Dragon 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Writing the Novel: From Plot to Print

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The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels

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